Growers of Adygea plan in 2016 to collect at least 3 tons of tea leaves, at the level of last year. According to experts, a good harvest was positively affected by favorable weather conditions and abundant rainfall in early summer.

To date, collected more than a ton of tea leaves. The meeting goes until mid – late September. Everything will depend on weather conditions. I think the crop will make us happy. After processing he will give about one and a half tons of green and black loose tea varieties "Adygeya", – said GTRK "Adygeya" Adyghe chief agronomist of the branch VNICS Muharbi Shishov.

As reported in the SOUTH.ru, today in the Republic of tea is grown in the village of Floral at the height of 347,1 m above sea level on the area of 6.06 ha. last year they collected this year 3 tons of tea raw. Adyghe tea comes in a trading network of Republic, South of Russia, buy it high-end shops of Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, come buyers from abroad.

Gradually, the tea producers of Adygea has increased the plantation to 10 hectares. However, the tea yields a harvest after 8 years. Therefore, only after 2 years will begin to bear fruit plantations of 1.5 ha, which will give an opportunity to increase tea harvest up to 5 tons.

We will remind, the production of tea in Adygea more than 30 years. The first cuttings of tea in the foothills of the Republic were planted in 1938 by a famous expert-tea-grower, doctor of agricultural Sciences I. I. Chkhaidze. It was a test plantings of the northernmost tea in the world. They conducted research and experimented on the zoning of tea and improving its quality. Scientists have concluded that the average climatic sub-zone of the foothills of North-Western Caucasus at a height of from 40 to 900 meters above sea level, suitable for cultivation of tea.

Was laid down on 8 plots for growing tea. The work was carried out on experimental fields of the villages of Novosvobodnaya, Sankt-Peterburg, Sevastopol, Novoromanovo village, hamlet Shuntuk, Maikop experimental station of VIR and Machos-Clearing. Became the center of village Floral.

In 1967, on the basis of existing tea plantations was established a separate entity – a strong point of the all-Union research Institute of tea and subtropical cultures.